MARIA Catalano heads to Woking on Sunday in a bid to land back-to-back titles on the women’s snooker circuit for the first time in five years.

Ronnie O’Sullivan’s 29-year-old cousin joins a 19-strong field for the UK Championship, the second of six ranking events on the World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association (WLBSA) tour, at Woking Snooker Centre.

Last month, en route to clinching the Northern Championship at the North East Derbyshire Snooker Centre, Clay Cross, Catalano ended seven-time world champion Reanne Evans’ record 90-match unbeaten run.

World number one Evans will no doubt be fired up to win the UK title for the seventh year on the spin.

Catalano last won back-to-back titles in 2006 when she claimed the Regal Ladies and the Connie Gough National.

Eleven-year-old Woking schoolgirl Jasmine Bolsover, the world number 21 and youngest girl on the tour, makes her first appearance of the season at her home club.

Making her tour debut will be Shaghayegh Sanei, known as Anna, an Iranian international studying at the University of Surrey.

In line with the WLBSA’s new policy, there will be an open draw for the UK Championship.

The WLBSA is grateful to Woking Snooker Centre for providing the venue.

REANNE Evans returned to winning ways on the women’s snooker circuit after a hard-fought battle with Portsmouth’s Emma Bonney in the UK Championship final.Two days after her 26th birthday, the seven-time world champion ground out a 3-2 victory from 2-1 down at Woking Snooker Centre.Evans admitted she was forced to go “back to basics” to overcome six-time world billiards champion Bonney and claim her seventh straight UK title.“I didn’t play very well at all,” she said. “It went really scrappy.“Emma potted well. In the decider she went a bit negative and it left me a couple of chances.“I couldn’t pot a ball so I went back to basics.”And the world number one, whose record 90-match unbeaten run on the World Ladies Billiards & Snooker Association (WLBSA) circuit was ended last month by Maria Catalano, declared: “A win is a win!”Bonney, 35, who had an opportunity at 2-1 to secure the match, defeated eight-time German national champion Natascha Niermann 3-1 in the last-four.The second semi pitched Evans, no great lover of this season’s open-draw format, against Catalano.But there was to be no repeat of the shock result at the Northern Championship between the friends from Dudley, West Midlands. Evans ran out a 3-0 winner. Evans, never in full flow all day, “didn’t know how” she recorded the top break of 80 against Gaye Jones (Melksham, Wilts) in the quarter-finals.Meanwhile, Maidstone’s Jenny Poulter won her second Seniors (over-40) title of the season. Former England international Marianne Williams (Smallfield, Surrey) collected the Plate trophy. And Vicky Carter (Hemel Hempstead) triumphed in the Shield (under-40).World number four Katie Henrick (Bickley, Kent) and former world number six Suzie Opacic (Hampshire) both lost in the last-16 on their return to the circuit.Making her WLBSA debut was Shaghayegh Sanei, known as Anna, an Iranian international studying at the University of Surrey. Sanei was knocked out in the preliminary round.